Re: "Usefull languages"
| From: | Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 14, 2002, 13:40 |
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:59:02 +0000
Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:35:34 -0000
> Kieth Gaughan <kgaughan@...> wrote:
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> > From: Stephen Mulraney [mailto:ataltanie@OCEANFREE.NET]
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> > <snipping explaination of why Irish orthography actually rocks>
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> Well, I didn't want to say before I explained it, but you're right ;)
Just remembered somthing - a limerick about Irish spelling :)
(BTW "Erse" is some old name for "Irish")
There was a young man from Dun Laoghaire
Who propounded an interesting thaoghaire -
That the language of Erse
Had a shortage of verse
As its spelling made poets so waoghaire.
(The clue you might need is that "Dun Laoghaire"
is to be pronounced /du:n lEr'E/, though people
commonly "anglicise" it to /dUn lIrI:/ or something
like that)
Stephen
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